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Professor Yung Doug Suh has been educated in Seoul National University (SNU) for his BS/MS/PhD from 1986 to 1999, while fulfilling his korean military duty by doing research at Molecular Reaction Dynamics (MRD) Lab led by Prof. Seong Keun Kim of SNU Chemistry (1988-1999), Spectroscopy Lab led by Prof. Dongho Kim of the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) (1990-1994), and Nano Physics Lab led by Prof. Young Kuk of SNU Physics (1994-1999), engaged in the newly started Military Specialist Program of the Republic of Korea Army (Mar.1993-Aug.2000) to fulfill his national military duty.
After doing his PostDoc at the Nano Analysis Lab in the Zenobi Group of the ETH Zurich, Switzerland (1999-2000), he was employed as a Research Assistant Professor at the Chemistry Department of the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea (2000-2001). He then moved out again to US in late Apr. 2001 to do research as a LTE Staff at the Single Molecule Spectroscopy Lab. in Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory (EMSL) of the Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL) in WA, U.S.A. (2001-2002). After a short stay in the Nanohybrid Co. Ltd., a Drug Delivery Venture Company, as a Chief Research Scientist and Research Information & Planning (RI&P) Director (2002-2003), he was recruited by the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), Daejeon, Korea, to become the youngest Principal Research Scientist at that time of the whole korean national lab, as a special employment initiated by KRICT President. From April 14th, 2003, he has created his own research group from scratch in KRICT, the Laboratory for Advanced Molecular Probing (LAMP) (Apr.2003-Nov.2021). During his KRICT career, he also has been enrolled as a KRICT-SKKU associate professor and then promoted to full professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, SungKyunKwan University (SKKU), Suwon, Korea (Mar.2013-Nov.2021)
Eventually, he was recruited to UNIST as of Nov. 11th, 2021 as a special employment by UNIST President. Recently, he has been also selected as an Associate Director of the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM), Inst. for Basic Science (IBS) located inside the UNIST campus since Jan. 1st, 2024. For your interest, UNIST boasts 3 IBS Centers on the same campus including CMCM. These 3 individual UNIST-IBS Centers have started constructing a huge brand new UNIST IBS building on campus since 2022, expecting to complete it in 2026. CMCM will occupy one whole floor out of total four floors, while sharing the ground floor with the other two UNIST IBS Centers to install a series of state-of the-art instruments for each 3 IBS centers. Please take a look at a blog news article on Dec 6th, 2024, interviewed as an Associate Director of the IBS CMCM. It is written in korean but can be translated with a variety of translators or Chat GPT. -> https://m.blog.naver.com/ibs_official/223684834003
Education
B.S. Chemistry in the Molecular Reaction Dynamics (MRD) Lab. (Prof. Seong Keun Kim, SNU Chem), Seoul National University (1991)
M.S. Physical Chemistry in the MRD Lab (Prof. Seong Keun Kim, SNU Chem) & Spectroscopy Lab (Dr. Dongho Kim, KRISS), Seoul National University (1993)
Ph.D. Nano Physical Chemistry in the Nano Physics Lab (Prof. Young Kuk, SNU Physics) & Spectroscopy Lab (Dr. Dongho Kim, KRISS) & MRD Lab (Prof. Seong Keun Kim, SNU Chem), Seoul National University (1999)
PostDoc, Nanoscale Analysis, Zenobi Lab, Dept. of Chemistry, Swiss Fed. Inst. of Tech. (ETH Zurich), Switzerland (1999-2000)
Career
Associate Director, Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM), Inst. for Basic Science (IBS), Ulsan National Inst. of Sci. and Tech. (UNIST), Ulsan, Korea (2024-Present)
Professor (Special Employment), Dept. of Chemistry, UNIST, Ulsan, Korea (2021-Present)
KRICT-SKKU Associate Professor & Professor, School of Chem. Eng., SungKyunKwan Univ. (SKKU), Suwon, Korea (2013-2021)
Group Leader (Special Employment), Laboratory for Advanced Molecular Probing (LAMP), Korea Research Inst. of Chem. Tech. (KRICT), Daejeon, Korea (2003-2021)
LTE Staff, Single Molecule Spectroscopy Lab., Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory (EMSL), Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), WA, U.S.A. (2001-2002)
Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Pohang University of Sci. and Tech. (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea (2000-2001)
Awards and Honors
Expert Committee Member, Basic Science Division, The Presidential Advisory Council on Science & Technology (PACST), Korean Government (2022-Present)
Minister's Award, Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), Korean Government (2022)
Chairperson’s Signature Award, The National Research Council of Sci. & Tech. (NST), MSIT, Korean Government (2021)
Excellent Scholar Award, Medical R&D Forum (2015)
TechConnect Global Innovation Award, TechConnect, Washington D.C. U.S.A.(2013)
Top 50 Basic Science Award, Korean Government (2012)
National R&D 100 Award, Korean Government (2011)
Prime Minister’s Award on 43rd National Science Day, Korean Government (2010)
Conference Organizing
Founding Organizer / Vice Chair, The 1st UCNP Gordon Research Conference, New Hampshire, U.S.A. (Jun. 18-23, 2023)
Symposium Chair, Enhanced Spectroscopies and Nanoimaging Symposium (OP 109), SPIE Optics+Photonics, San Diego, U.S.A. (Aug. 2020 [The 1st Symposium] - Present)
Founding Organizer / General Secretary, The 1st ACS Asia-Pacific International Chapters Conference (The 1st ACS APICC), Jeju, Korea (Nov. 5-8, 2017)
General Secretary, The 5th International Conference on Surface Plasmon and Photonics (SPP-5), Busan, Korea (May 15-20, 2011)
General Secretary, The 8th International Conference on Near-Field Nano Optics & Related Techniques (NFO-8), Seoul, Korea (Sep. 5-9, 2004)
Founding Organizer, KNOS (Korean Nano Optical Society) Winter Workshop in Muju & Summer Symposium in Seoul, Korea (Feb. 2005-Present)
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